What is the point of Indian reservations? How did they came to be and why couldn't Americans just abolish them?
>>18221336We need somewhere to gamble that isn't vegas
Performative for the most part but also it was a way for an imperial authority to keep an agitated population far away from urban areas of importance.They enjoy a great degree of independence now. They have their own codified laws that they have to abide by and their own police departments. But this came to be after a series of later attempts to push Indians away from areas of economic importance
White people got bored of being energetic pioneers, settling every inch of land and breeding like rabbits without regard for treaties, just before finishing the job. The industrial revolution was the best thing to happen to minorities.
Guilt over manifesting destiny over their lands. Actual reluctance by less racist US politicians to commit wholesale genocide. They couldn't do more for these people than give them limited autonomy over their own communities, and this was only agreed to by the racist politicians because they saw it as a way to buy off these people they couldn't legally exterminate so they wouldn't have legal recourse to complain to the government. Also they gave them all the shit land nobody wanted for the most part.
>>18221336Shouldn't Oklahoma have more ?And why is Arizona and Minnesota (the fuck ???) full of them
>>18221361Americans used to be based.
>>18221440Arizona has always been full of natives
>>18221466Which kind of natives?And why reserves in Minnesota and just i noticed in Wisconsin and Michigan? I thought they were all exterminated in that areas
>>18221513Puebloan communities, Hopi, Zuni, Pima, tons of them. In the days of New Spain, the Spanish didn't penetrate far beyond Christianizing some but they never fully Mexified them so some are still living in pueblos to this day
